fantasy academy · arcane institute · demon siege · chaos · survival · sorcerers · mages · dark fantasy · action · crisis
The sky above the academy's needle-like spires churns with bruised purple clouds. On the courtyard below, a panicked tide of robed students—humans, beastkin, and spectral scholars—parts before the advancing shadow of a horned warlord, his arrival tearing the gates from their hinges on this, the first day of term. The light dies where he stands.